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Published: June 17th 2006
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Sorrento
Sorrento with Mt. Vesuvious(sp) in the background Hello to one and all!
We are in Sorrento right now, it is beautiful. Cute little resort town with everyother person being a British tourist. This place is right on the coast, beautiful shores and views of Mt. Vesouvious (oh dear that is really spelled wrong... sorry). Sadly we are only here for 2 days, today we are just sort of wandering. Getting the lay of the land and checking out all the side streets, doing the tourist thing. Tomorrow we are going to Pompei (sp?) to check out the volcanic ruins and take a ride up to the top of the volcano to see the lava! Should be cool. Monday we are heading out, early (groan), to get to Bari asap to get a place on the ferry to go to Patras, Greece that night. We can't reserve it early because we have rail passes... grrr I really really hope that we don't end up spending a night in Bari... That would be a giant pain in the ass.
Rome was amazing. So much to see. My advice to people going to Rome, go to the Ancient City part first. That is the Rome that the pictures are of
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Dan next to some pretty ruins and that everyone raves about. The first day we were there we went to the Vatican, which I admit, was pretty frickin cool, Dan wrote about that so I won't go into detail again. The next day we did a night tour of Rome from our campsite. Everything looks really magical in the dark with all the lights. We ended up at St. Peter's Basillica, it was deserted with the stars out and the lights shining on the appropriate parts. It was heavenly! Oh and the pope was home cause we saw his night light on. During that day we took advantage of the pool! I worked on my tan (coming along quite nicely!) and Dan worked on his burn (that is also coming along quite nicely, lobster boy!). Day 3, final day, we got up to explore the Ancient city. It was so cool. I was missing Miss Jennifer Pringle at this point (for those who do not know her she is a lovely lady who just finished her degree in Classical studies, roman and greek history stuff). There was a monument, ruin, or both around every corner. I took pictures just for Jen, and then she can tell
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Coastline again... pretty
me what I am looking at. I think she would be the best tour guide around there. We walked through the forum, ruins everywhere. I was so tickled that we could just sit on these old slabs of carved marble and chill out. Then to the Colloseum (sp, sorry Jen), which was so frickin cool. Its huge! There are all the pits in the middle for the Christians to run away from the tigers! It was so amazing to be in a structure that big and that old, it made me feel significant or something. Actually I felt sort of bad for not knowing what everything was and the history, but I was appreciative for everything that I saw and I guess that will just have to be enough. After that we had lunch at a great little cafe called 'cafe cafe' in a side street, recommended by the book. Then we just wandered through Rome, to the shopping street (I got a cheap pair of pants to walk/run in, yes I'm trying to get some exercise so I'm trying my hand at running...), over to the Pantheon, a few fountains, a few obilisks, you know everything Roman! Then to
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Me on a rock with my two favourite things! a great little side street taverna that the book recommended too, Antica Taverna. Amazing pizza, amazing wine, amazing brushetta. We stumbled out of there full and happy and didn't spend very much either! Very satisfying. Then to Piazza Navona for gelato and then our plan was to get back to the campsite for packing and chilling.... or that was our hope....
Here is where the darker side of Rome came into our day. I must sparate this from the rest of the Roman experience because really this was the only bad experience we had. Everything else was really cool. To get back we needed to take the Metro (renound for pickpockets, but we hadn't had any trouble with that. Basically lock your bag keep it in front, and you are fine), but it was out of service for some reason. Some Metro worker waved us away in a direction for a bus instead... We didn't find the one he mentioned, but we did get to on in the end. Yay! It was so packed, because the Metro was not running. Everyone pushing and shoving, there were even nuns on the bus! Everyone was there! But we got to the right
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On the train to Sorrento place to catch our connection, so everything was fine, anxiety gone, we were going to get back in one piece. On our last bus it was way less crowded, we got a chance to account for everything, except one thing... Dan's wallet. Yes folks we are a statistic of the tourists who get pickpocketed (or dan is). He had it in a velcro pocket in the side of his pants, so you would think that he would be able to feel the pull of someone going in there. His wallet was really big too, so I took a bit to get it out.... We figures that there were these 3 guys, they literally pushed everyone onto the bus, Dan was the last one. They pushed him and then didn't actually take the bus, they pushed and then got off. Well they probably pushed to distract Dan from them taking his wallet and then took off just before the bus left. Sneaky. What is really crazy is that there were nuns on the bus, so basically I think these guys are going to hell even more so because there were nuns present. So this sucks ass, but we got back used
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Coast line at sunset the phone cancelled the appropriate cards and called Dan's parents. We are still good to continue. Luckily the camp ground took our passports, so that wasn't in Dan's wallet, we would have been royally screwed if that had happened.
Anyways we reported it to the Police the next day on our way out (I was reading outside the station with Dan in there for 2 hours...), then to the station to continue our journey. That was yesterday, it was a busy day. We were happy to arrive at the campground safe and sound. Nice place, great views, but really bitchy reception. Oh well you can't win them all. There is a beach at the bottom of the site, we are going to check that out this afternoon.
So thats everything for now! We will give another message, hopefully when we get to Athens with no delays.... If not maybe from Bari when I am pissed off.... We will get pictures up soon, in Athens probably where the internet is cheap.
love to all
robyn and dan
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hell
ytheives apparently don't mind going to hell. WE met a monk in Assisi who said he had had the exact same thing happen to him on the buss in Rome when he was WEARING HIS ROBES! Imagine...